MmmmBacon:Technically, the US, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and any number of other countries could have stopped them, had they chose to. But why? As long as Un and his regime are funneling most of their money into missiles that frankly don't work, they aren't feeding their people (and only barely feeding their troops). We are betting that a popular uprising will eventually ensue, which will topple the government without us firing a single shot. Meanwhile, all we have to do is be watchful, and if they actually look like they are going to take aggressive action against us or our allies, the carpet bombing of Pyongyang will begin.

I can't find the article now, but 3-4 months ago, it was reported that the soldiers in some BK Army base in the mountains had been raiding the local towns around it in the middle of the night, going in throwing people out of their houses at gunpoint and dismantling the buildings to take back to the barracks to burn for firewood, as their barracks had no heat and it had been something like -20C for several weeks straight.

North Best Korea has another major problem that only the treehugger folks like me seem to have noticed. That is, they've almost completely stripped their entire country of trees. The big forests that were standing in the northwestern part of the country in the mountains near China are gone. Just gone. The citizens have been using them for firewood and cutting for timber to build their modern communist paradise and not replacing them. While they were building those cities like, PyongYang, they didn't bother to modernize much of the rest of the country so people still live pretty much as they did for thousands of years.

Their mountains have been stripped bare of most foliage in areas close to those cities, and they've been experiencing landslides that have buried several of their more remote towns. Best Korea is in a very ugly situation, but it isn't as ugly as it will be in ten years.

Deathfrogg:MmmmBacon:Technically, the US, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and any number of other countries could have stopped them, had they chose to. But why? As long as Un and his regime are funneling most of their money into missiles that frankly don't work, they aren't feeding their people (and only barely feeding their troops). We are betting that a popular uprising will eventually ensue, which will topple the government without us firing a single shot. Meanwhile, all we have to do is be watchful, and if they actually look like they are going to take aggressive action against us or our allies, the carpet bombing of Pyongyang will begin.

I can't find the article now, but 3-4 months ago, it was reported that the soldiers in some BK Army base in the mountains had been raiding the local towns around it in the middle of the night, going in throwing people out of their houses at gunpoint and dismantling the buildings to take back to the barracks to burn for firewood, as their barracks had no heat and it had been something like -20C for several weeks straight.

North Best Korea has another major problem that only the treehugger folks like me seem to have noticed. That is, they've almost completely stripped their entire country of trees. The big forests that were standing in the northwestern part of the country in the mountains near China are gone. Just gone. The citizens have been using them for firewood and cutting for timber to build their modern communist paradise and not replacing them. While they were building those cities like, PyongYang, they didn't bother to modernize much of the rest of the country so people still live pretty much as they did for thousands of years.

Their mountains have been stripped bare of most foliage in areas close to those cities, and they've been experiencing landslides that have buried several of their more remote towns. Best Korea is in a very ugly situation, but it isn't as ugly as it will be in ten years.

aagrajag:Deathfrogg: MmmmBacon:Technically, the US, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and any number of other countries could have stopped them, had they chose to. But why? As long as Un and his regime are funneling most of their money into missiles that frankly don't work, they aren't feeding their people (and only barely feeding their troops). We are betting that a popular uprising will eventually ensue, which will topple the government without us firing a single shot. Meanwhile, all we have to do is be watchful, and if they actually look like they are going to take aggressive action against us or our allies, the carpet bombing of Pyongyang will begin.

I can't find the article now, but 3-4 months ago, it was reported that the soldiers in some BK Army base in the mountains had been raiding the local towns around it in the middle of the night, going in throwing people out of their houses at gunpoint and dismantling the buildings to take back to the barracks to burn for firewood, as their barracks had no heat and it had been something like -20C for several weeks straight.

North Best Korea has another major problem that only the treehugger folks like me seem to have noticed. That is, they've almost completely stripped their entire country of trees. The big forests that were standing in the northwestern part of the country in the mountains near China are gone. Just gone. The citizens have been using them for firewood and cutting for timber to build their modern communist paradise and not replacing them. While they were building those cities like, PyongYang, they didn't bother to modernize much of the rest of the country so people still live pretty much as they did for thousands of years.

Their mountains have been stripped bare of most foliage in areas close to those cities, and they've been experiencing landslides that have buried several of their more remote towns. Best Korea is in a very ugly situation, but it isn't as ugly as it will be in ten years.

Lost Thought 00:aagrajag: Deathfrogg: MmmmBacon:Technically, the US, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and any number of other countries could have stopped them, had they chose to. But why? As long as Un and his regime are funneling most of their money into missiles that frankly don't work, they aren't feeding their people (and only barely feeding their troops). We are betting that a popular uprising will eventually ensue, which will topple the government without us firing a single shot. Meanwhile, all we have to do is be watchful, and if they actually look like they are going to take aggressive action against us or our allies, the carpet bombing of Pyongyang will begin.

I can't find the article now, but 3-4 months ago, it was reported that the soldiers in some BK Army base in the mountains had been raiding the local towns around it in the middle of the night, going in throwing people out of their houses at gunpoint and dismantling the buildings to take back to the barracks to burn for firewood, as their barracks had no heat and it had been something like -20C for several weeks straight.

North Best Korea has another major problem that only the treehugger folks like me seem to have noticed. That is, they've almost completely stripped their entire country of trees. The big forests that were standing in the northwestern part of the country in the mountains near China are gone. Just gone. The citizens have been using them for firewood and cutting for timber to build their modern communist paradise and not replacing them. While they were building those cities like, PyongYang, they didn't bother to modernize much of the rest of the country so people still live pretty much as they did for thousands of years.

Their mountains have been stripped bare of most foliage in areas close to those cities, and they've been experiencing landslides that have buried several of their more remote towns. Best Korea is in a very ugly situation, but it isn't as ugly as it will be in ten years.

But hey, ...

Some people there have already been publicly executed for that.

It's astonishing that their security and propaganda apparatus functions so well that such things can occur and yet not a trace of a resistance movement be seen.

MmmmBacon:Best Korea threatens to nuke cities across the US, then can't even manage to get a missile or three as far as Japan! Then again, it may not have been BK's fault... they may have just felt Un-inspired.

Smashed Hat:They really don't seem to have a clue what's going on in the rest of the world. If you haven't seen the Vice documentary 'Inside North Korea' on YouTube I highly recommend it.

This reminds me of a game of Civilization. Do you remember those times where you build up your little empire in a nice, deserted section of the map? You don't have very much contact with the other civs so you found a few cities, get some roads and farms going and make a little army. Then one day, one of the other civs founds a city a little too close to yours and doesn't want to play nice and trade luxury items with you so you're like, "Screw it, I'm gonna take their city!" So you declare war and march in there and suddenly realize they are defending the city with tanks and you're attacking with spearmen.

/ That's usually what happens to me, anyway

That's how all of my games go, too -- even when I start the map specifically challenging myself to play peacefully and reasonably. Sometimes it goes well at first, but at some point when a resource is discovered (like iron or oil) I'll find that I don't have any within my borders, and some asshole civ has plopped down a city in my area that cuts off my access to it. Suddenly I become a ruthless warmonger. And then because I have only a few spearmen and archers guarding my cities, I throw away all my country's resources into a sudden military buildup that just barely prevents me from getting my ass kicked in the coming war.

These were three short range missiles that they fire off all the time and no one (outside of their immediate neighbors) cares about, not the medium range ones that were moved to.. then back from the coast recently.